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Petr Mladek d25c83c660 kthread: make it clear that kthread_create_on_node() might be terminated by any fatal signal
The comments in kernel/kthread.c create a feeling that only SIGKILL is
able to terminate the creation of kernel kthreads by
kthread_create()/_on_node()/_on_cpu() APIs.

In reality, wait_for_completion_killable() might be killed by any fatal
signal that does not have a custom handler:

	(!siginmask(signr, SIG_KERNEL_IGNORE_MASK|SIG_KERNEL_STOP_MASK) && \
	 (t)->sighand->action[(signr)-1].sa.sa_handler == SIG_DFL)

static inline void signal_wake_up(struct task_struct *t, bool resume)
{
	signal_wake_up_state(t, resume ? TASK_WAKEKILL : 0);
}

static void complete_signal(int sig, struct task_struct *p, enum pid_type type)
{
[...]
	/*
	 * Found a killable thread.  If the signal will be fatal,
	 * then start taking the whole group down immediately.
	 */
	if (sig_fatal(p, sig) ...) {
		if (!sig_kernel_coredump(sig)) {
		[...]
			do {
				task_clear_jobctl_pending(t, JOBCTL_PENDING_MASK);
				sigaddset(&t->pending.signal, SIGKILL);
				signal_wake_up(t, 1);
			} while_each_thread(p, t);
			return;
		}
	}
}

Update the comments in kernel/kthread.c to make this more obvious.

The motivation for this change was debugging why a module initialization
failed.  The module was being loaded from initrd.  It "magically" failed
when systemd was switching to the real root.  The clean up operations sent
SIGTERM to various pending processed that were started from initrd.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220315102444.2380-1-pmladek@suse.com
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2022-06-16 19:11:30 -07:00
Christoph Hellwig f624506f98 kthread: unexport kthread_blkcg
kthread_blkcg is only used by the built-in blk-cgroup code.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220420042723.1010598-16-hch@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2022-05-02 14:06:20 -06:00
Linus Torvalds 194dfe88d6 asm-generic updates for 5.18
There are three sets of updates for 5.18 in the asm-generic tree:
 
  - The set_fs()/get_fs() infrastructure gets removed for good. This
    was already gone from all major architectures, but now we can
    finally remove it everywhere, which loses some particularly
    tricky and error-prone code.
    There is a small merge conflict against a parisc cleanup, the
    solution is to use their new version.
 
  - The nds32 architecture ends its tenure in the Linux kernel. The
    hardware is still used and the code is in reasonable shape, but
    the mainline port is not actively maintained any more, as all
    remaining users are thought to run vendor kernels that would never
    be updated to a future release.
    There are some obvious conflicts against changes to the removed
    files.
 
  - A series from Masahiro Yamada cleans up some of the uapi header
    files to pass the compile-time checks.
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Merge tag 'asm-generic-5.18' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/asm-generic

Pull asm-generic updates from Arnd Bergmann:
 "There are three sets of updates for 5.18 in the asm-generic tree:

   - The set_fs()/get_fs() infrastructure gets removed for good.

     This was already gone from all major architectures, but now we can
     finally remove it everywhere, which loses some particularly tricky
     and error-prone code. There is a small merge conflict against a
     parisc cleanup, the solution is to use their new version.

   - The nds32 architecture ends its tenure in the Linux kernel.

     The hardware is still used and the code is in reasonable shape, but
     the mainline port is not actively maintained any more, as all
     remaining users are thought to run vendor kernels that would never
     be updated to a future release.

   - A series from Masahiro Yamada cleans up some of the uapi header
     files to pass the compile-time checks"

* tag 'asm-generic-5.18' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/asm-generic: (27 commits)
  nds32: Remove the architecture
  uaccess: remove CONFIG_SET_FS
  ia64: remove CONFIG_SET_FS support
  sh: remove CONFIG_SET_FS support
  sparc64: remove CONFIG_SET_FS support
  lib/test_lockup: fix kernel pointer check for separate address spaces
  uaccess: generalize access_ok()
  uaccess: fix type mismatch warnings from access_ok()
  arm64: simplify access_ok()
  m68k: fix access_ok for coldfire
  MIPS: use simpler access_ok()
  MIPS: Handle address errors for accesses above CPU max virtual user address
  uaccess: add generic __{get,put}_kernel_nofault
  nios2: drop access_ok() check from __put_user()
  x86: use more conventional access_ok() definition
  x86: remove __range_not_ok()
  sparc64: add __{get,put}_kernel_nofault()
  nds32: fix access_ok() checks in get/put_user
  uaccess: fix nios2 and microblaze get_user_8()
  sparc64: fix building assembly files
  ...
2022-03-23 18:03:08 -07:00
Arnd Bergmann 967747bbc0 uaccess: remove CONFIG_SET_FS
There are no remaining callers of set_fs(), so CONFIG_SET_FS
can be removed globally, along with the thread_info field and
any references to it.

This turns access_ok() into a cheaper check against TASK_SIZE_MAX.

As CONFIG_SET_FS is now gone, drop all remaining references to
set_fs()/get_fs(), mm_segment_t, user_addr_max() and uaccess_kernel().

Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> # for sparc32 changes
Acked-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Tested-by: Sergey Matyukevich <sergey.matyukevich@synopsys.com> # for arc changes
Acked-by: Stafford Horne <shorne@gmail.com> # [openrisc, asm-generic]
Acked-by: Dinh Nguyen <dinguyen@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
2022-02-25 09:36:06 +01:00
Frederic Weisbecker 04d4e665a6 sched/isolation: Use single feature type while referring to housekeeping cpumask
Refer to housekeeping APIs using single feature types instead of flags.
This prevents from passing multiple isolation features at once to
housekeeping interfaces, which soon won't be possible anymore as each
isolation features will have their own cpumask.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Phil Auld <pauld@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220207155910.527133-5-frederic@kernel.org
2022-02-16 15:57:55 +01:00
Linus Torvalds f4484d138b Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)
Merge more updates from Andrew Morton:
 "55 patches.

  Subsystems affected by this patch series: percpu, procfs, sysctl,
  misc, core-kernel, get_maintainer, lib, checkpatch, binfmt, nilfs2,
  hfs, fat, adfs, panic, delayacct, kconfig, kcov, and ubsan"

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (55 commits)
  lib: remove redundant assignment to variable ret
  ubsan: remove CONFIG_UBSAN_OBJECT_SIZE
  kcov: fix generic Kconfig dependencies if ARCH_WANTS_NO_INSTR
  lib/Kconfig.debug: make TEST_KMOD depend on PAGE_SIZE_LESS_THAN_256KB
  btrfs: use generic Kconfig option for 256kB page size limit
  arch/Kconfig: split PAGE_SIZE_LESS_THAN_256KB from PAGE_SIZE_LESS_THAN_64KB
  configs: introduce debug.config for CI-like setup
  delayacct: track delays from memory compact
  Documentation/accounting/delay-accounting.rst: add thrashing page cache and direct compact
  delayacct: cleanup flags in struct task_delay_info and functions use it
  delayacct: fix incomplete disable operation when switch enable to disable
  delayacct: support swapin delay accounting for swapping without blkio
  panic: remove oops_id
  panic: use error_report_end tracepoint on warnings
  fs/adfs: remove unneeded variable make code cleaner
  FAT: use io_schedule_timeout() instead of congestion_wait()
  hfsplus: use struct_group_attr() for memcpy() region
  nilfs2: remove redundant pointer sbufs
  fs/binfmt_elf: use PT_LOAD p_align values for static PIE
  const_structs.checkpatch: add frequently used ops structs
  ...
2022-01-20 10:41:01 +02:00
Yafang Shao d6986ce24f kthread: dynamically allocate memory to store kthread's full name
When I was implementing a new per-cpu kthread cfs_migration, I found the
comm of it "cfs_migration/%u" is truncated due to the limitation of
TASK_COMM_LEN.  For example, the comm of the percpu thread on CPU10~19
all have the same name "cfs_migration/1", which will confuse the user.
This issue is not critical, because we can get the corresponding CPU
from the task's Cpus_allowed.  But for kthreads corresponding to other
hardware devices, it is not easy to get the detailed device info from
task comm, for example,

    jbd2/nvme0n1p2-
    xfs-reclaim/sdf

Currently there are so many truncated kthreads:

    rcu_tasks_kthre
    rcu_tasks_rude_
    rcu_tasks_trace
    poll_mpt3sas0_s
    ext4-rsv-conver
    xfs-reclaim/sd{a, b, c, ...}
    xfs-blockgc/sd{a, b, c, ...}
    xfs-inodegc/sd{a, b, c, ...}
    audit_send_repl
    ecryptfs-kthrea
    vfio-irqfd-clea
    jbd2/nvme0n1p2-
    ...

We can shorten these names to work around this problem, but it may be
not applied to all of the truncated kthreads.  Take 'jbd2/nvme0n1p2-'
for example, it is a nice name, and it is not a good idea to shorten it.

One possible way to fix this issue is extending the task comm size, but
as task->comm is used in lots of places, that may cause some potential
buffer overflows.  Another more conservative approach is introducing a
new pointer to store kthread's full name if it is truncated, which won't
introduce too much overhead as it is in the non-critical path.  Finally
we make a dicision to use the second approach.  See also the discussions
in this thread:
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20211101060419.4682-1-laoar.shao@gmail.com/

After this change, the full name of these truncated kthreads will be
displayed via /proc/[pid]/comm:

    rcu_tasks_kthread
    rcu_tasks_rude_kthread
    rcu_tasks_trace_kthread
    poll_mpt3sas0_statu
    ext4-rsv-conversion
    xfs-reclaim/sdf1
    xfs-blockgc/sdf1
    xfs-inodegc/sdf1
    audit_send_reply
    ecryptfs-kthread
    vfio-irqfd-cleanup
    jbd2/nvme0n1p2-8

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211120112850.46047-1-laoar.shao@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Yafang Shao <laoar.shao@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Suggested-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Suggested-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <arnaldo.melo@gmail.com>
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii.nakryiko@gmail.com>
Cc: Michal Miroslaw <mirq-linux@rere.qmqm.pl>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2022-01-20 08:52:53 +02:00
Linus Torvalds 35ce8ae9ae Merge branch 'signal-for-v5.17' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace
Pull signal/exit/ptrace updates from Eric Biederman:
 "This set of changes deletes some dead code, makes a lot of cleanups
  which hopefully make the code easier to follow, and fixes bugs found
  along the way.

  The end-game which I have not yet reached yet is for fatal signals
  that generate coredumps to be short-circuit deliverable from
  complete_signal, for force_siginfo_to_task not to require changing
  userspace configured signal delivery state, and for the ptrace stops
  to always happen in locations where we can guarantee on all
  architectures that the all of the registers are saved and available on
  the stack.

  Removal of profile_task_ext, profile_munmap, and profile_handoff_task
  are the big successes for dead code removal this round.

  A bunch of small bug fixes are included, as most of the issues
  reported were small enough that they would not affect bisection so I
  simply added the fixes and did not fold the fixes into the changes
  they were fixing.

  There was a bug that broke coredumps piped to systemd-coredump. I
  dropped the change that caused that bug and replaced it entirely with
  something much more restrained. Unfortunately that required some
  rebasing.

  Some successes after this set of changes: There are few enough calls
  to do_exit to audit in a reasonable amount of time. The lifetime of
  struct kthread now matches the lifetime of struct task, and the
  pointer to struct kthread is no longer stored in set_child_tid. The
  flag SIGNAL_GROUP_COREDUMP is removed. The field group_exit_task is
  removed. Issues where task->exit_code was examined with
  signal->group_exit_code should been examined were fixed.

  There are several loosely related changes included because I am
  cleaning up and if I don't include them they will probably get lost.

  The original postings of these changes can be found at:
     https://lkml.kernel.org/r/87a6ha4zsd.fsf@email.froward.int.ebiederm.org
     https://lkml.kernel.org/r/87bl1kunjj.fsf@email.froward.int.ebiederm.org
     https://lkml.kernel.org/r/87r19opkx1.fsf_-_@email.froward.int.ebiederm.org

  I trimmed back the last set of changes to only the obviously correct
  once. Simply because there was less time for review than I had hoped"

* 'signal-for-v5.17' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace: (44 commits)
  ptrace/m68k: Stop open coding ptrace_report_syscall
  ptrace: Remove unused regs argument from ptrace_report_syscall
  ptrace: Remove second setting of PT_SEIZED in ptrace_attach
  taskstats: Cleanup the use of task->exit_code
  exit: Use the correct exit_code in /proc/<pid>/stat
  exit: Fix the exit_code for wait_task_zombie
  exit: Coredumps reach do_group_exit
  exit: Remove profile_handoff_task
  exit: Remove profile_task_exit & profile_munmap
  signal: clean up kernel-doc comments
  signal: Remove the helper signal_group_exit
  signal: Rename group_exit_task group_exec_task
  coredump: Stop setting signal->group_exit_task
  signal: Remove SIGNAL_GROUP_COREDUMP
  signal: During coredumps set SIGNAL_GROUP_EXIT in zap_process
  signal: Make coredump handling explicit in complete_signal
  signal: Have prepare_signal detect coredumps using signal->core_state
  signal: Have the oom killer detect coredumps using signal->core_state
  exit: Move force_uaccess back into do_exit
  exit: Guarantee make_task_dead leaks the tsk when calling do_task_exit
  ...
2022-01-17 05:49:30 +02:00
Cai Huoqing 800977f6f3 kthread: add the helper function kthread_run_on_cpu()
Add a new helper function kthread_run_on_cpu(), which includes
kthread_create_on_cpu/wake_up_process().

In some cases, use kthread_run_on_cpu() directly instead of
kthread_create_on_node/kthread_bind/wake_up_process() or
kthread_create_on_cpu/wake_up_process() or
kthreadd_create/kthread_bind/wake_up_process() to simplify the code.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: export kthread_create_on_cpu to modules]

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211022025711.3673-2-caihuoqing@baidu.com
Signed-off-by: Cai Huoqing <caihuoqing@baidu.com>
Cc: Bernard Metzler <bmt@zurich.ibm.com>
Cc: Cai Huoqing <caihuoqing@baidu.com>
Cc: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@kernel.org>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
Cc: Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca>
Cc: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Cc: Lai Jiangshan <jiangshanlai@gmail.com>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: "Paul E . McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2022-01-15 16:30:23 +02:00
Eric W. Biederman e32cf5dfbe kthread: Generalize pf_io_worker so it can point to struct kthread
The point of using set_child_tid to hold the kthread pointer was that
it already did what is necessary.  There are now restrictions on when
set_child_tid can be initialized and when set_child_tid can be used in
schedule_tail.  Which indicates that continuing to use set_child_tid
to hold the kthread pointer is a bad idea.

Instead of continuing to use the set_child_tid field of task_struct
generalize the pf_io_worker field of task_struct and use it to hold
the kthread pointer.

Rename pf_io_worker (which is a void * pointer) to worker_private so
it can be used to store kthreads struct kthread pointer.  Update the
kthread code to store the kthread pointer in the worker_private field.
Remove the places where set_child_tid had to be dealt with carefully
because kthreads also used it.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/CAHk-=wgtFAA9SbVYg0gR1tqPMC17-NYcs0GQkaYg1bGhh1uJQQ@mail.gmail.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/87a6grvqy8.fsf_-_@email.froward.int.ebiederm.org
Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
2022-01-08 09:39:49 -06:00
Eric W. Biederman 5eb6f22823 exit/kthread: Fix the kerneldoc comment for kthread_complete_and_exit
I misspelled kthread_complete_and_exit in the kernel doc comment fix
it.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/202112141329.KBkyJ5ql-lkp@intel.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/202112141422.Cykr6YUS-lkp@intel.com
Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@intel.com>
Fixes: cead185526 ("exit: Rename complete_and_exit to kthread_complete_and_exit")
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
2021-12-14 11:31:41 -06:00
Eric W. Biederman 6b1248798e exit/kthread: Move the exit code for kernel threads into struct kthread
The exit code of kernel threads has different semantics than the
exit_code of userspace tasks.  To avoid confusion and allow
the userspace implementation to change as needed move
the kernel thread exit code into struct kthread.

Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
2021-12-13 12:04:46 -06:00
Eric W. Biederman 40966e316f kthread: Ensure struct kthread is present for all kthreads
Today the rules are a bit iffy and arbitrary about which kernel
threads have struct kthread present.  Both idle threads and thread
started with create_kthread want struct kthread present so that is
effectively all kernel threads.  Make the rule that if PF_KTHREAD
and the task is running then struct kthread is present.

This will allow the kernel thread code to using tsk->exit_code
with different semantics from ordinary processes.

To make ensure that struct kthread is present for all
kernel threads move it's allocation into copy_process.

Add a deallocation of struct kthread in exec for processes
that were kernel threads.

Move the allocation of struct kthread for the initial thread
earlier so that it is not repeated for each additional idle
thread.

Move the initialization of struct kthread into set_kthread_struct
so that the structure is always and reliably initailized.

Clear set_child_tid in free_kthread_struct to ensure the kthread
struct is reliably freed during exec.  The function
free_kthread_struct does not need to clear vfork_done during exec as
exec_mm_release called from exec_mmap has already cleared vfork_done.

Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
2021-12-13 12:04:45 -06:00
Eric W. Biederman cead185526 exit: Rename complete_and_exit to kthread_complete_and_exit
Update complete_and_exit to call kthread_exit instead of do_exit.

Change the name to reflect this change in functionality.  All of the
users of complete_and_exit are causing the current kthread to exit so
this change makes it clear what is happening.

Move the implementation of kthread_complete_and_exit from
kernel/exit.c to to kernel/kthread.c.  As this function is kthread
specific it makes most sense to live with the kthread functions.

There are no functional change.

Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
2021-12-13 12:04:45 -06:00
Eric W. Biederman bbda86e988 exit: Implement kthread_exit
The way the per task_struct exit_code is used by kernel threads is not
quite compatible how it is used by userspace applications.  The low
byte of the userspace exit_code value encodes the exit signal.  While
kthreads just use the value as an int holding ordinary kernel function
exit status like -EPERM.

Add kthread_exit to clearly separate the two kinds of uses.

Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
2021-12-13 12:04:45 -06:00
Linus Torvalds 5147da902e Merge branch 'exit-cleanups-for-v5.16' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace
Pull exit cleanups from Eric Biederman:
 "While looking at some issues related to the exit path in the kernel I
  found several instances where the code is not using the existing
  abstractions properly.

  This set of changes introduces force_fatal_sig a way of sending a
  signal and not allowing it to be caught, and corrects the misuse of
  the existing abstractions that I found.

  A lot of the misuse of the existing abstractions are silly things such
  as doing something after calling a no return function, rolling BUG by
  hand, doing more work than necessary to terminate a kernel thread, or
  calling do_exit(SIGKILL) instead of calling force_sig(SIGKILL).

  In the review a deficiency in force_fatal_sig and force_sig_seccomp
  where ptrace or sigaction could prevent the delivery of the signal was
  found. I have added a change that adds SA_IMMUTABLE to change that
  makes it impossible to interrupt the delivery of those signals, and
  allows backporting to fix force_sig_seccomp

  And Arnd found an issue where a function passed to kthread_run had the
  wrong prototype, and after my cleanup was failing to build."

* 'exit-cleanups-for-v5.16' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace: (23 commits)
  soc: ti: fix wkup_m3_rproc_boot_thread return type
  signal: Add SA_IMMUTABLE to ensure forced siganls do not get changed
  signal: Replace force_sigsegv(SIGSEGV) with force_fatal_sig(SIGSEGV)
  exit/r8188eu: Replace the macro thread_exit with a simple return 0
  exit/rtl8712: Replace the macro thread_exit with a simple return 0
  exit/rtl8723bs: Replace the macro thread_exit with a simple return 0
  signal/x86: In emulate_vsyscall force a signal instead of calling do_exit
  signal/sparc32: In setup_rt_frame and setup_fram use force_fatal_sig
  signal/sparc32: Exit with a fatal signal when try_to_clear_window_buffer fails
  exit/syscall_user_dispatch: Send ordinary signals on failure
  signal: Implement force_fatal_sig
  exit/kthread: Have kernel threads return instead of calling do_exit
  signal/s390: Use force_sigsegv in default_trap_handler
  signal/vm86_32: Properly send SIGSEGV when the vm86 state cannot be saved.
  signal/vm86_32: Replace open coded BUG_ON with an actual BUG_ON
  signal/sparc: In setup_tsb_params convert open coded BUG into BUG
  signal/powerpc: On swapcontext failure force SIGSEGV
  signal/sh: Use force_sig(SIGKILL) instead of do_group_exit(SIGKILL)
  signal/mips: Update (_save|_restore)_fp_context to fail with -EFAULT
  signal/sparc32: Remove unreachable do_exit in do_sparc_fault
  ...
2021-11-10 16:15:54 -08:00
Eric W. Biederman 111e70490d exit/kthread: Have kernel threads return instead of calling do_exit
In 2009 Oleg reworked[1] the kernel threads so that it is not
necessary to call do_exit if you are not using kthread_stop().  Remove
the explicit calls of do_exit and complete_and_exit (with a NULL
completion) that were previously necessary.

[1] 63706172f3 ("kthreads: rework kthread_stop()")
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211020174406.17889-12-ebiederm@xmission.com
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
2021-10-29 14:31:33 -05:00
Sebastian Andrzej Siewior 1a7243ca40 kthread: Move prio/affinite change into the newly created thread
With enabled threaded interrupts the nouveau driver reported the
following:

| Chain exists of:
|   &mm->mmap_lock#2 --> &device->mutex --> &cpuset_rwsem
|
|  Possible unsafe locking scenario:
|
|        CPU0                    CPU1
|        ----                    ----
|   lock(&cpuset_rwsem);
|                                lock(&device->mutex);
|                                lock(&cpuset_rwsem);
|   lock(&mm->mmap_lock#2);

The device->mutex is nvkm_device::mutex.

Unblocking the lockchain at `cpuset_rwsem' is probably the easiest
thing to do.  Move the priority reset to the start of the newly
created thread.

Fixes: 710da3c8ea ("sched/core: Prevent race condition between cpuset and __sched_setscheduler()")
Reported-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/a23a826af7c108ea5651e73b8fbae5e653f16e86.camel@gmx.de
2021-10-05 15:51:58 +02:00
Linus Torvalds 65090f30ab Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)
Merge misc updates from Andrew Morton:
 "191 patches.

  Subsystems affected by this patch series: kthread, ia64, scripts,
  ntfs, squashfs, ocfs2, kernel/watchdog, and mm (gup, pagealloc, slab,
  slub, kmemleak, dax, debug, pagecache, gup, swap, memcg, pagemap,
  mprotect, bootmem, dma, tracing, vmalloc, kasan, initialization,
  pagealloc, and memory-failure)"

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (191 commits)
  mm,hwpoison: make get_hwpoison_page() call get_any_page()
  mm,hwpoison: send SIGBUS with error virutal address
  mm/page_alloc: split pcp->high across all online CPUs for cpuless nodes
  mm/page_alloc: allow high-order pages to be stored on the per-cpu lists
  mm: replace CONFIG_FLAT_NODE_MEM_MAP with CONFIG_FLATMEM
  mm: replace CONFIG_NEED_MULTIPLE_NODES with CONFIG_NUMA
  docs: remove description of DISCONTIGMEM
  arch, mm: remove stale mentions of DISCONIGMEM
  mm: remove CONFIG_DISCONTIGMEM
  m68k: remove support for DISCONTIGMEM
  arc: remove support for DISCONTIGMEM
  arc: update comment about HIGHMEM implementation
  alpha: remove DISCONTIGMEM and NUMA
  mm/page_alloc: move free_the_page
  mm/page_alloc: fix counting of managed_pages
  mm/page_alloc: improve memmap_pages dbg msg
  mm: drop SECTION_SHIFT in code comments
  mm/page_alloc: introduce vm.percpu_pagelist_high_fraction
  mm/page_alloc: limit the number of pages on PCP lists when reclaim is active
  mm/page_alloc: scale the number of pages that are batch freed
  ...
2021-06-29 17:29:11 -07:00
Petr Mladek d71ba1649f kthread_worker: fix return value when kthread_mod_delayed_work() races with kthread_cancel_delayed_work_sync()
kthread_mod_delayed_work() might race with
kthread_cancel_delayed_work_sync() or another kthread_mod_delayed_work()
call.  The function lets the other operation win when it sees
work->canceling counter set.  And it returns @false.

But it should return @true as it is done by the related workqueue API, see
mod_delayed_work_on().

The reason is that the return value might be used for reference counting.
It has to distinguish the case when the number of queued works has changed
or stayed the same.

The change is safe.  kthread_mod_delayed_work() return value is not
checked anywhere at the moment.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210521163526.GA17916@redhat.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210610133051.15337-4-pmladek@suse.com
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Reported-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Cc: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@google.com>
Cc: <jenhaochen@google.com>
Cc: Martin Liu <liumartin@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2021-06-29 10:53:45 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 54a728dc5e Scheduler udpates for this cycle:
- Changes to core scheduling facilities:
 
     - Add "Core Scheduling" via CONFIG_SCHED_CORE=y, which enables
       coordinated scheduling across SMT siblings. This is a much
       requested feature for cloud computing platforms, to allow
       the flexible utilization of SMT siblings, without exposing
       untrusted domains to information leaks & side channels, plus
       to ensure more deterministic computing performance on SMT
       systems used by heterogenous workloads.
 
       There's new prctls to set core scheduling groups, which
       allows more flexible management of workloads that can share
       siblings.
 
     - Fix task->state access anti-patterns that may result in missed
       wakeups and rename it to ->__state in the process to catch new
       abuses.
 
  - Load-balancing changes:
 
      - Tweak newidle_balance for fair-sched, to improve
        'memcache'-like workloads.
 
      - "Age" (decay) average idle time, to better track & improve workloads
        such as 'tbench'.
 
      - Fix & improve energy-aware (EAS) balancing logic & metrics.
 
      - Fix & improve the uclamp metrics.
 
      - Fix task migration (taskset) corner case on !CONFIG_CPUSET.
 
      - Fix RT and deadline utilization tracking across policy changes
 
      - Introduce a "burstable" CFS controller via cgroups, which allows
        bursty CPU-bound workloads to borrow a bit against their future
        quota to improve overall latencies & batching. Can be tweaked
        via /sys/fs/cgroup/cpu/<X>/cpu.cfs_burst_us.
 
      - Rework assymetric topology/capacity detection & handling.
 
  - Scheduler statistics & tooling:
 
      - Disable delayacct by default, but add a sysctl to enable
        it at runtime if tooling needs it. Use static keys and
        other optimizations to make it more palatable.
 
      - Use sched_clock() in delayacct, instead of ktime_get_ns().
 
  - Misc cleanups and fixes.
 
 Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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Merge tag 'sched-core-2021-06-28' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

Pull scheduler udpates from Ingo Molnar:

 - Changes to core scheduling facilities:

    - Add "Core Scheduling" via CONFIG_SCHED_CORE=y, which enables
      coordinated scheduling across SMT siblings. This is a much
      requested feature for cloud computing platforms, to allow the
      flexible utilization of SMT siblings, without exposing untrusted
      domains to information leaks & side channels, plus to ensure more
      deterministic computing performance on SMT systems used by
      heterogenous workloads.

      There are new prctls to set core scheduling groups, which allows
      more flexible management of workloads that can share siblings.

    - Fix task->state access anti-patterns that may result in missed
      wakeups and rename it to ->__state in the process to catch new
      abuses.

 - Load-balancing changes:

    - Tweak newidle_balance for fair-sched, to improve 'memcache'-like
      workloads.

    - "Age" (decay) average idle time, to better track & improve
      workloads such as 'tbench'.

    - Fix & improve energy-aware (EAS) balancing logic & metrics.

    - Fix & improve the uclamp metrics.

    - Fix task migration (taskset) corner case on !CONFIG_CPUSET.

    - Fix RT and deadline utilization tracking across policy changes

    - Introduce a "burstable" CFS controller via cgroups, which allows
      bursty CPU-bound workloads to borrow a bit against their future
      quota to improve overall latencies & batching. Can be tweaked via
      /sys/fs/cgroup/cpu/<X>/cpu.cfs_burst_us.

    - Rework assymetric topology/capacity detection & handling.

 - Scheduler statistics & tooling:

    - Disable delayacct by default, but add a sysctl to enable it at
      runtime if tooling needs it. Use static keys and other
      optimizations to make it more palatable.

    - Use sched_clock() in delayacct, instead of ktime_get_ns().

 - Misc cleanups and fixes.

* tag 'sched-core-2021-06-28' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (72 commits)
  sched/doc: Update the CPU capacity asymmetry bits
  sched/topology: Rework CPU capacity asymmetry detection
  sched/core: Introduce SD_ASYM_CPUCAPACITY_FULL sched_domain flag
  psi: Fix race between psi_trigger_create/destroy
  sched/fair: Introduce the burstable CFS controller
  sched/uclamp: Fix uclamp_tg_restrict()
  sched/rt: Fix Deadline utilization tracking during policy change
  sched/rt: Fix RT utilization tracking during policy change
  sched: Change task_struct::state
  sched,arch: Remove unused TASK_STATE offsets
  sched,timer: Use __set_current_state()
  sched: Add get_current_state()
  sched,perf,kvm: Fix preemption condition
  sched: Introduce task_is_running()
  sched: Unbreak wakeups
  sched/fair: Age the average idle time
  sched/cpufreq: Consider reduced CPU capacity in energy calculation
  sched/fair: Take thermal pressure into account while estimating energy
  thermal/cpufreq_cooling: Update offline CPUs per-cpu thermal_pressure
  sched/fair: Return early from update_tg_cfs_load() if delta == 0
  ...
2021-06-28 12:14:19 -07:00
Petr Mladek 5fa54346ca kthread: prevent deadlock when kthread_mod_delayed_work() races with kthread_cancel_delayed_work_sync()
The system might hang with the following backtrace:

	schedule+0x80/0x100
	schedule_timeout+0x48/0x138
	wait_for_common+0xa4/0x134
	wait_for_completion+0x1c/0x2c
	kthread_flush_work+0x114/0x1cc
	kthread_cancel_work_sync.llvm.16514401384283632983+0xe8/0x144
	kthread_cancel_delayed_work_sync+0x18/0x2c
	xxxx_pm_notify+0xb0/0xd8
	blocking_notifier_call_chain_robust+0x80/0x194
	pm_notifier_call_chain_robust+0x28/0x4c
	suspend_prepare+0x40/0x260
	enter_state+0x80/0x3f4
	pm_suspend+0x60/0xdc
	state_store+0x108/0x144
	kobj_attr_store+0x38/0x88
	sysfs_kf_write+0x64/0xc0
	kernfs_fop_write_iter+0x108/0x1d0
	vfs_write+0x2f4/0x368
	ksys_write+0x7c/0xec

It is caused by the following race between kthread_mod_delayed_work()
and kthread_cancel_delayed_work_sync():

CPU0				CPU1

Context: Thread A		Context: Thread B

kthread_mod_delayed_work()
  spin_lock()
  __kthread_cancel_work()
     spin_unlock()
     del_timer_sync()
				kthread_cancel_delayed_work_sync()
				  spin_lock()
				  __kthread_cancel_work()
				    spin_unlock()
				    del_timer_sync()
				    spin_lock()

				  work->canceling++
				  spin_unlock
     spin_lock()
   queue_delayed_work()
     // dwork is put into the worker->delayed_work_list

   spin_unlock()

				  kthread_flush_work()
     // flush_work is put at the tail of the dwork

				    wait_for_completion()

Context: IRQ

  kthread_delayed_work_timer_fn()
    spin_lock()
    list_del_init(&work->node);
    spin_unlock()

BANG: flush_work is not longer linked and will never get proceed.

The problem is that kthread_mod_delayed_work() checks work->canceling
flag before canceling the timer.

A simple solution is to (re)check work->canceling after
__kthread_cancel_work().  But then it is not clear what should be
returned when __kthread_cancel_work() removed the work from the queue
(list) and it can't queue it again with the new @delay.

The return value might be used for reference counting.  The caller has
to know whether a new work has been queued or an existing one was
replaced.

The proper solution is that kthread_mod_delayed_work() will remove the
work from the queue (list) _only_ when work->canceling is not set.  The
flag must be checked after the timer is stopped and the remaining
operations can be done under worker->lock.

Note that kthread_mod_delayed_work() could remove the timer and then
bail out.  It is fine.  The other canceling caller needs to cancel the
timer as well.  The important thing is that the queue (list)
manipulation is done atomically under worker->lock.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210610133051.15337-3-pmladek@suse.com
Fixes: 9a6b06c8d9 ("kthread: allow to modify delayed kthread work")
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Reported-by: Martin Liu <liumartin@google.com>
Cc: <jenhaochen@google.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@google.com>
Cc: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Cc: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2021-06-24 19:40:54 -07:00
Petr Mladek 34b3d53447 kthread_worker: split code for canceling the delayed work timer
Patch series "kthread_worker: Fix race between kthread_mod_delayed_work()
and kthread_cancel_delayed_work_sync()".

This patchset fixes the race between kthread_mod_delayed_work() and
kthread_cancel_delayed_work_sync() including proper return value
handling.

This patch (of 2):

Simple code refactoring as a preparation step for fixing a race between
kthread_mod_delayed_work() and kthread_cancel_delayed_work_sync().

It does not modify the existing behavior.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210610133051.15337-2-pmladek@suse.com
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Cc: <jenhaochen@google.com>
Cc: Martin Liu <liumartin@google.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@google.com>
Cc: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Cc: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2021-06-24 19:40:54 -07:00
Peter Zijlstra 2f064a59a1 sched: Change task_struct::state
Change the type and name of task_struct::state. Drop the volatile and
shrink it to an 'unsigned int'. Rename it in order to find all uses
such that we can use READ_ONCE/WRITE_ONCE as appropriate.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@linaro.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210611082838.550736351@infradead.org
2021-06-18 11:43:09 +02:00
Valentin Schneider 00b89fe019 sched: Make the idle task quack like a per-CPU kthread
For all intents and purposes, the idle task is a per-CPU kthread. It isn't
created via the same route as other pcpu kthreads however, and as a result
it is missing a few bells and whistles: it fails kthread_is_per_cpu() and
it doesn't have PF_NO_SETAFFINITY set.

Fix the former by giving the idle task a kthread struct along with the
KTHREAD_IS_PER_CPU flag. This requires some extra iffery as init_idle()
call be called more than once on the same idle task.

Signed-off-by: Valentin Schneider <valentin.schneider@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210510151024.2448573-2-valentin.schneider@arm.com
2021-05-18 12:53:53 +02:00
Linus Torvalds 16b3d0cf5b Scheduler updates for this cycle are:
- Clean up SCHED_DEBUG: move the decades old mess of sysctl, procfs and debugfs interfaces
    to a unified debugfs interface.
 
  - Signals: Allow caching one sigqueue object per task, to improve performance & latencies.
 
  - Improve newidle_balance() irq-off latencies on systems with a large number of CPU cgroups.
 
  - Improve energy-aware scheduling
 
  - Improve the PELT metrics for certain workloads
 
  - Reintroduce select_idle_smt() to improve load-balancing locality - but without the previous
    regressions
 
  - Add 'scheduler latency debugging': warn after long periods of pending need_resched. This
    is an opt-in feature that requires the enabling of the LATENCY_WARN scheduler feature,
    or the use of the resched_latency_warn_ms=xx boot parameter.
 
  - CPU hotplug fixes for HP-rollback, and for the 'fail' interface. Fix remaining
    balance_push() vs. hotplug holes/races
 
  - PSI fixes, plus allow /proc/pressure/ files to be written by CAP_SYS_RESOURCE tasks as well
 
  - Fix/improve various load-balancing corner cases vs. capacity margins
 
  - Fix sched topology on systems with NUMA diameter of 3 or above
 
  - Fix PF_KTHREAD vs to_kthread() race
 
  - Minor rseq optimizations
 
  - Misc cleanups, optimizations, fixes and smaller updates
 
 Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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Merge tag 'sched-core-2021-04-28' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

Pull scheduler updates from Ingo Molnar:

 - Clean up SCHED_DEBUG: move the decades old mess of sysctl, procfs and
   debugfs interfaces to a unified debugfs interface.

 - Signals: Allow caching one sigqueue object per task, to improve
   performance & latencies.

 - Improve newidle_balance() irq-off latencies on systems with a large
   number of CPU cgroups.

 - Improve energy-aware scheduling

 - Improve the PELT metrics for certain workloads

 - Reintroduce select_idle_smt() to improve load-balancing locality -
   but without the previous regressions

 - Add 'scheduler latency debugging': warn after long periods of pending
   need_resched. This is an opt-in feature that requires the enabling of
   the LATENCY_WARN scheduler feature, or the use of the
   resched_latency_warn_ms=xx boot parameter.

 - CPU hotplug fixes for HP-rollback, and for the 'fail' interface. Fix
   remaining balance_push() vs. hotplug holes/races

 - PSI fixes, plus allow /proc/pressure/ files to be written by
   CAP_SYS_RESOURCE tasks as well

 - Fix/improve various load-balancing corner cases vs. capacity margins

 - Fix sched topology on systems with NUMA diameter of 3 or above

 - Fix PF_KTHREAD vs to_kthread() race

 - Minor rseq optimizations

 - Misc cleanups, optimizations, fixes and smaller updates

* tag 'sched-core-2021-04-28' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (61 commits)
  cpumask/hotplug: Fix cpu_dying() state tracking
  kthread: Fix PF_KTHREAD vs to_kthread() race
  sched/debug: Fix cgroup_path[] serialization
  sched,psi: Handle potential task count underflow bugs more gracefully
  sched: Warn on long periods of pending need_resched
  sched/fair: Move update_nohz_stats() to the CONFIG_NO_HZ_COMMON block to simplify the code & fix an unused function warning
  sched/debug: Rename the sched_debug parameter to sched_verbose
  sched,fair: Alternative sched_slice()
  sched: Move /proc/sched_debug to debugfs
  sched,debug: Convert sysctl sched_domains to debugfs
  debugfs: Implement debugfs_create_str()
  sched,preempt: Move preempt_dynamic to debug.c
  sched: Move SCHED_DEBUG sysctl to debugfs
  sched: Don't make LATENCYTOP select SCHED_DEBUG
  sched: Remove sched_schedstats sysctl out from under SCHED_DEBUG
  sched/numa: Allow runtime enabling/disabling of NUMA balance without SCHED_DEBUG
  sched: Use cpu_dying() to fix balance_push vs hotplug-rollback
  cpumask: Introduce DYING mask
  cpumask: Make cpu_{online,possible,present,active}() inline
  rseq: Optimise rseq_get_rseq_cs() and clear_rseq_cs()
  ...
2021-04-28 13:33:57 -07:00
Peter Zijlstra 3a7956e25e kthread: Fix PF_KTHREAD vs to_kthread() race
The kthread_is_per_cpu() construct relies on only being called on
PF_KTHREAD tasks (per the WARN in to_kthread). This gives rise to the
following usage pattern:

	if ((p->flags & PF_KTHREAD) && kthread_is_per_cpu(p))

However, as reported by syzcaller, this is broken. The scenario is:

	CPU0				CPU1 (running p)

	(p->flags & PF_KTHREAD) // true

					begin_new_exec()
					  me->flags &= ~(PF_KTHREAD|...);
	kthread_is_per_cpu(p)
	  to_kthread(p)
	    WARN(!(p->flags & PF_KTHREAD) <-- *SPLAT*

Introduce __to_kthread() that omits the WARN and is sure to check both
values.

Use this to remove the problematic pattern for kthread_is_per_cpu()
and fix a number of other kthread_*() functions that have similar
issues but are currently not used in ways that would expose the
problem.

Notably kthread_func() is only ever called on 'current', while
kthread_probe_data() is only used for PF_WQ_WORKER, which implies the
task is from kthread_create*().

Fixes: ac687e6e8c ("kthread: Extract KTHREAD_IS_PER_CPU")
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Valentin Schneider <Valentin.Schneider@arm.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/YH6WJc825C4P0FCK@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net
2021-04-21 13:55:42 +02:00
Sami Tolvanen 0a5b412891 kthread: use WARN_ON_FUNCTION_MISMATCH
With CONFIG_CFI_CLANG, a callback function passed to
__kthread_queue_delayed_work from a module points to a jump table
entry defined in the module instead of the one used in the core
kernel, which breaks function address equality in this check:

  WARN_ON_ONCE(timer->function != ktead_delayed_work_timer_fn);

Use WARN_ON_FUNCTION_MISMATCH() instead to disable the warning
when CFI and modules are both enabled.

Signed-off-by: Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Tested-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210408182843.1754385-7-samitolvanen@google.com
2021-04-08 16:04:21 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 24c56ee06c - Correct the marking of kthreads which are supposed to run on a specific,
single CPU vs such which are affine to only one CPU, mark per-cpu workqueue
  threads as such and make sure that marking "survives" CPU hotplug. Fix CPU
  hotplug issues with such kthreads.
 
  - A fix to not push away tasks on CPUs coming online.
 
  - Have workqueue CPU hotplug code use cpu_possible_mask when breaking affinity
    on CPU offlining so that pending workers can finish on newly arrived onlined
    CPUs too.
 
  - Dump tasks which haven't vacated a CPU which is currently being unplugged.
 
  - Register a special scale invariance callback which gets called on resume
  from RAM to read out APERF/MPERF after resume and thus make the schedutil
  scaling governor more precise.
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Merge tag 'sched_urgent_for_v5.11_rc5' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

Pull scheduler fixes from Borislav Petkov:

 - Correct the marking of kthreads which are supposed to run on a
   specific, single CPU vs such which are affine to only one CPU, mark
   per-cpu workqueue threads as such and make sure that marking
   "survives" CPU hotplug. Fix CPU hotplug issues with such kthreads.

 - A fix to not push away tasks on CPUs coming online.

 - Have workqueue CPU hotplug code use cpu_possible_mask when breaking
   affinity on CPU offlining so that pending workers can finish on newly
   arrived onlined CPUs too.

 - Dump tasks which haven't vacated a CPU which is currently being
   unplugged.

 - Register a special scale invariance callback which gets called on
   resume from RAM to read out APERF/MPERF after resume and thus make
   the schedutil scaling governor more precise.

* tag 'sched_urgent_for_v5.11_rc5' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  sched: Relax the set_cpus_allowed_ptr() semantics
  sched: Fix CPU hotplug / tighten is_per_cpu_kthread()
  sched: Prepare to use balance_push in ttwu()
  workqueue: Restrict affinity change to rescuer
  workqueue: Tag bound workers with KTHREAD_IS_PER_CPU
  kthread: Extract KTHREAD_IS_PER_CPU
  sched: Don't run cpu-online with balance_push() enabled
  workqueue: Use cpu_possible_mask instead of cpu_active_mask to break affinity
  sched/core: Print out straggler tasks in sched_cpu_dying()
  x86: PM: Register syscore_ops for scale invariance
2021-01-24 10:09:20 -08:00
Peter Zijlstra ac687e6e8c kthread: Extract KTHREAD_IS_PER_CPU
There is a need to distinguish geniune per-cpu kthreads from kthreads
that happen to have a single CPU affinity.

Geniune per-cpu kthreads are kthreads that are CPU affine for
correctness, these will obviously have PF_KTHREAD set, but must also
have PF_NO_SETAFFINITY set, lest userspace modify their affinity and
ruins things.

However, these two things are not sufficient, PF_NO_SETAFFINITY is
also set on other tasks that have their affinities controlled through
other means, like for instance workqueues.

Therefore another bit is needed; it turns out kthread_create_per_cpu()
already has such a bit: KTHREAD_IS_PER_CPU, which is used to make
kthread_park()/kthread_unpark() work correctly.

Expose this flag and remove the implicit setting of it from
kthread_create_on_cpu(); the io_uring usage of it seems dubious at
best.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Valentin Schneider <valentin.schneider@arm.com>
Tested-by: Valentin Schneider <valentin.schneider@arm.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210121103506.557620262@infradead.org
2021-01-22 15:09:42 +01:00
Yanfei Xu cb5021ca62
kthread: remove comments about old _do_fork() helper
The old _do_fork() helper has been removed in favor of kernel_clone().
Here correct some comments which still contain _do_fork()

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210111104807.18022-1-yanfei.xu@windriver.com
Cc: christian@brauner.io
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Acked-by: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com>
Signed-off-by: Yanfei Xu <yanfei.xu@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com>
2021-01-11 15:11:56 +01:00
Linus Torvalds ac73e3dc8a Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)
Merge misc updates from Andrew Morton:

 - a few random little subsystems

 - almost all of the MM patches which are staged ahead of linux-next
   material. I'll trickle to post-linux-next work in as the dependents
   get merged up.

Subsystems affected by this patch series: kthread, kbuild, ide, ntfs,
ocfs2, arch, and mm (slab-generic, slab, slub, dax, debug, pagecache,
gup, swap, shmem, memcg, pagemap, mremap, hmm, vmalloc, documentation,
kasan, pagealloc, memory-failure, hugetlb, vmscan, z3fold, compaction,
oom-kill, migration, cma, page-poison, userfaultfd, zswap, zsmalloc,
uaccess, zram, and cleanups).

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (200 commits)
  mm: cleanup kstrto*() usage
  mm: fix fall-through warnings for Clang
  mm: slub: convert sysfs sprintf family to sysfs_emit/sysfs_emit_at
  mm: shmem: convert shmem_enabled_show to use sysfs_emit_at
  mm:backing-dev: use sysfs_emit in macro defining functions
  mm: huge_memory: convert remaining use of sprintf to sysfs_emit and neatening
  mm: use sysfs_emit for struct kobject * uses
  mm: fix kernel-doc markups
  zram: break the strict dependency from lzo
  zram: add stat to gather incompressible pages since zram set up
  zram: support page writeback
  mm/process_vm_access: remove redundant initialization of iov_r
  mm/zsmalloc.c: rework the list_add code in insert_zspage()
  mm/zswap: move to use crypto_acomp API for hardware acceleration
  mm/zswap: fix passing zero to 'PTR_ERR' warning
  mm/zswap: make struct kernel_param_ops definitions const
  userfaultfd/selftests: hint the test runner on required privilege
  userfaultfd/selftests: fix retval check for userfaultfd_open()
  userfaultfd/selftests: always dump something in modes
  userfaultfd: selftests: make __{s,u}64 format specifiers portable
  ...
2020-12-15 12:53:37 -08:00
Petr Mladek ebb2bdcef8 kthread_worker: document CPU hotplug handling
The kthread worker API is simple.  In short, it allows to create, use, and
destroy workers.  kthread_create_worker_on_cpu() just allows to bind a
newly created worker to a given CPU.

It is up to the API user how to handle CPU hotplug.  They have to decide
how to handle pending work items, prevent queuing new ones, and restore
the functionality when the CPU goes off and on.  There are few catches:

   + The CPU affinity gets lost when it is scheduled on an offline CPU.

   + The worker might not exist when the CPU was off when the user
     created the workers.

A good practice is to implement two CPU hotplug callbacks and
destroy/create the worker when CPU goes down/up.

Mention this in the function description.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: grammar tweaks]

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201028073031.4536-1-qiang.zhang@windriver.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201102101039.19227-1-pmladek@suse.com
Reported-by: Zhang Qiang <Qiang.Zhang@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2020-12-15 12:13:36 -08:00
Rob Clark f630c7c6f1 kthread: add kthread_work tracepoints
While migrating some code from wq to kthread_worker, I found that I missed
the execute_start/end tracepoints.  So add similar tracepoints for
kthread_work.  And for completeness, queue_work tracepoint (although this
one differs slightly from the matching workqueue tracepoint).

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201010180323.126634-1-robdclark@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Rob Clark <robdclark@chromium.org>
Cc: Rob Clark <robdclark@chromium.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: "Peter Zijlstra (Intel)" <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Phil Auld <pauld@redhat.com>
Cc: Valentin Schneider <valentin.schneider@arm.com>
Cc: Thara Gopinath <thara.gopinath@linaro.org>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Vincent Donnefort <vincent.donnefort@arm.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Cc: Ilias Stamatis <stamatis.iliass@gmail.com>
Cc: Liang Chen <cl@rock-chips.com>
Cc: Ben Dooks <ben.dooks@codethink.co.uk>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2020-12-15 12:13:36 -08:00
Ingo Molnar a787bdaff8 Merge branch 'linus' into sched/core, to resolve semantic conflict
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2020-11-27 11:10:50 +01:00
Zqiang 6993d0fdbe kthread_worker: prevent queuing delayed work from timer_fn when it is being canceled
There is a small race window when a delayed work is being canceled and
the work still might be queued from the timer_fn:

	CPU0						CPU1
kthread_cancel_delayed_work_sync()
   __kthread_cancel_work_sync()
     __kthread_cancel_work()
        work->canceling++;
					      kthread_delayed_work_timer_fn()
						   kthread_insert_work();

BUG: kthread_insert_work() should not get called when work->canceling is
set.

Signed-off-by: Zqiang <qiang.zhang@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201014083030.16895-1-qiang.zhang@windriver.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2020-11-02 12:14:19 -08:00
Mathieu Desnoyers 618758ed3a sched: membarrier: cover kthread_use_mm (v4)
Add comments and memory barrier to kthread_use_mm and kthread_unuse_mm
to allow the effect of membarrier(2) to apply to kthreads accessing
user-space memory as well.

Given that no prior kthread use this guarantee and that it only affects
kthreads, adding this guarantee does not affect user-space ABI.

Refine the check in membarrier_global_expedited to exclude runqueues
running the idle thread rather than all kthreads from the IPI cpumask.

Now that membarrier_global_expedited can IPI kthreads, the scheduler
also needs to update the runqueue's membarrier_state when entering lazy
TLB state.

Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201020134715.13909-3-mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com
2020-10-29 11:00:31 +01:00
Randy Dunlap 7b7b8a2c95 kernel/: fix repeated words in comments
Fix multiple occurrences of duplicated words in kernel/.

Fix one typo/spello on the same line as a duplicate word.  Change one
instance of "the the" to "that the".  Otherwise just drop one of the
repeated words.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/98202fa6-8919-ef63-9efe-c0fad5ca7af1@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2020-10-16 11:11:19 -07:00
Christoph Hellwig 3d13f313ce uaccess: add force_uaccess_{begin,end} helpers
Add helpers to wrap the get_fs/set_fs magic for undoing any damange done
by set_fs(KERNEL_DS).  There is no real functional benefit, but this
documents the intent of these calls better, and will allow stubbing the
functions out easily for kernels builds that do not allow address space
overrides in the future.

[hch@lst.de: drop two incorrect hunks, fix a commit log typo]
  Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200714105505.935079-6-hch@lst.de

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Acked-by: Greentime Hu <green.hu@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Nick Hu <nickhu@andestech.com>
Cc: Vincent Chen <deanbo422@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@sifive.com>
Cc: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@dabbelt.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200710135706.537715-6-hch@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2020-08-12 10:57:59 -07:00
Ilias Stamatis 4ca1085c95 kthread: remove incorrect comment in kthread_create_on_cpu()
Originally kthread_create_on_cpu() parked and woke up the new thread.
However, since commit a65d40961d ("kthread/smpboot: do not park in
kthread_create_on_cpu()") this is no longer the case.  This patch removes
the comment that has been left behind and is now incorrect / stale.

Fixes: a65d40961d ("kthread/smpboot: do not park in kthread_create_on_cpu()")
Signed-off-by: Ilias Stamatis <stamatis.iliass@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200611135920.240551-1-stamatis.iliass@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2020-08-07 11:33:21 -07:00
Peter Zijlstra 38cf307c1f mm: fix kthread_use_mm() vs TLB invalidate
For SMP systems using IPI based TLB invalidation, looking at
current->active_mm is entirely reasonable.  This then presents the
following race condition:

  CPU0			CPU1

  flush_tlb_mm(mm)	use_mm(mm)
    <send-IPI>
			  tsk->active_mm = mm;
			  <IPI>
			    if (tsk->active_mm == mm)
			      // flush TLBs
			  </IPI>
			  switch_mm(old_mm,mm,tsk);

Where it is possible the IPI flushed the TLBs for @old_mm, not @mm,
because the IPI lands before we actually switched.

Avoid this by disabling IRQs across changing ->active_mm and
switch_mm().

Of the (SMP) architectures that have IPI based TLB invalidate:

  Alpha    - checks active_mm
  ARC      - ASID specific
  IA64     - checks active_mm
  MIPS     - ASID specific flush
  OpenRISC - shoots down world
  PARISC   - shoots down world
  SH       - ASID specific
  SPARC    - ASID specific
  x86      - N/A
  xtensa   - checks active_mm

So at the very least Alpha, IA64 and Xtensa are suspect.

On top of this, for scheduler consistency we need at least preemption
disabled across changing tsk->mm and doing switch_mm(), which is
currently provided by task_lock(), but that's not sufficient for
PREEMPT_RT.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: add comment]

Reported-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200721154106.GE10769@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2020-08-07 11:33:21 -07:00
Peter Zijlstra faa2fd7cba Merge branch 'sched/urgent' 2020-07-08 11:38:59 +02:00
Christoph Hellwig fe557319aa maccess: rename probe_kernel_{read,write} to copy_{from,to}_kernel_nofault
Better describe what these functions do.

Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2020-06-17 10:57:41 -07:00
Marcelo Tosatti 9cc5b86568 isolcpus: Affine unbound kernel threads to housekeeping cpus
This is a kernel enhancement that configures the cpu affinity of kernel
threads via kernel boot option nohz_full=.

When this option is specified, the cpumask is immediately applied upon
kthread launch. This does not affect kernel threads that specify cpu
and node.

This allows CPU isolation (that is not allowing certain threads
to execute on certain CPUs) without using the isolcpus=domain parameter,
making it possible to enable load balancing on such CPUs
during runtime (see kernel-parameters.txt).

Note-1: this is based off on Wind River's patch at
https://github.com/starlingx-staging/stx-integ/blob/master/kernel/kernel-std/centos/patches/affine-compute-kernel-threads.patch

Difference being that this patch is limited to modifying kernel thread
cpumask. Behaviour of other threads can be controlled via cgroups or
sched_setaffinity.

Note-2: Wind River's patch was based off Christoph Lameter's patch at
https://lwn.net/Articles/565932/ with the only difference being
the kernel parameter changed from kthread to kthread_cpus.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200527142909.23372-3-frederic@kernel.org
2020-06-15 14:10:03 +02:00
Marcelo Tosatti 043eb8e105 kthread: Switch to cpu_possible_mask
Next patch will switch unbound kernel threads mask to
housekeeping_cpumask(), a subset of cpu_possible_mask. So in order to
ease bisection, lets first switch kthreads default affinity from
cpu_all_mask to cpu_possible_mask.

It looks safe to do so as cpu_possible_mask seem to be initialized
at setup_arch() time, way before kthreadd is created.

Suggested-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200527142909.23372-2-frederic@kernel.org
2020-06-15 14:10:03 +02:00
Linus Torvalds 623f6dc593 Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)
Merge some more updates from Andrew Morton:

 - various hotfixes and minor things

 - hch's use_mm/unuse_mm clearnups

Subsystems affected by this patch series: mm/hugetlb, scripts, kcov,
lib, nilfs, checkpatch, lib, mm/debug, ocfs2, lib, misc.

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>:
  kernel: set USER_DS in kthread_use_mm
  kernel: better document the use_mm/unuse_mm API contract
  kernel: move use_mm/unuse_mm to kthread.c
  kernel: move use_mm/unuse_mm to kthread.c
  stacktrace: cleanup inconsistent variable type
  lib: test get_count_order/long in test_bitops.c
  mm: add comments on pglist_data zones
  ocfs2: fix spelling mistake and grammar
  mm/debug_vm_pgtable: fix kernel crash by checking for THP support
  lib: fix bitmap_parse() on 64-bit big endian archs
  checkpatch: correct check for kernel parameters doc
  nilfs2: fix null pointer dereference at nilfs_segctor_do_construct()
  lib/lz4/lz4_decompress.c: document deliberate use of `&'
  kcov: check kcov_softirq in kcov_remote_stop()
  scripts/spelling: add a few more typos
  khugepaged: selftests: fix timeout condition in wait_for_scan()
2020-06-11 13:25:53 -07:00
Christoph Hellwig 37c54f9bd4 kernel: set USER_DS in kthread_use_mm
Some architectures like arm64 and s390 require USER_DS to be set for
kernel threads to access user address space, which is the whole purpose of
kthread_use_mm, but other like x86 don't.  That has lead to a huge mess
where some callers are fixed up once they are tested on said
architectures, while others linger around and yet other like io_uring try
to do "clever" optimizations for what usually is just a trivial asignment
to a member in the thread_struct for most architectures.

Make kthread_use_mm set USER_DS, and kthread_unuse_mm restore to the
previous value instead.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Tested-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Reviewed-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Cc: Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher@amd.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Felipe Balbi <balbi@kernel.org>
Cc: Felix Kuehling <Felix.Kuehling@amd.com>
Cc: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
Cc: Zhenyu Wang <zhenyuw@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Zhi Wang <zhi.a.wang@intel.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200404094101.672954-7-hch@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2020-06-10 19:14:18 -07:00
Christoph Hellwig f5678e7f2a kernel: better document the use_mm/unuse_mm API contract
Switch the function documentation to kerneldoc comments, and add
WARN_ON_ONCE asserts that the calling thread is a kernel thread and does
not have ->mm set (or has ->mm set in the case of unuse_mm).

Also give the functions a kthread_ prefix to better document the use case.

[hch@lst.de: fix a comment typo, cover the newly merged use_mm/unuse_mm caller in vfio]
  Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200416053158.586887-3-hch@lst.de
[sfr@canb.auug.org.au: powerpc/vas: fix up for {un}use_mm() rename]
  Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200422163935.5aa93ba5@canb.auug.org.au

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Tested-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Reviewed-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Acked-by: Felix Kuehling <Felix.Kuehling@amd.com>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> [usb]
Acked-by: Haren Myneni <haren@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher@amd.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Felipe Balbi <balbi@kernel.org>
Cc: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
Cc: Zhenyu Wang <zhenyuw@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Zhi Wang <zhi.a.wang@intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200404094101.672954-6-hch@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2020-06-10 19:14:18 -07:00
Christoph Hellwig 9bf5b9eb23 kernel: move use_mm/unuse_mm to kthread.c
Patch series "improve use_mm / unuse_mm", v2.

This series improves the use_mm / unuse_mm interface by better documenting
the assumptions, and my taking the set_fs manipulations spread over the
callers into the core API.

This patch (of 3):

Use the proper API instead.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200404094101.672954-1-hch@lst.de

These helpers are only for use with kernel threads, and I will tie them
more into the kthread infrastructure going forward.  Also move the
prototypes to kthread.h - mmu_context.h was a little weird to start with
as it otherwise contains very low-level MM bits.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Tested-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Reviewed-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Acked-by: Felix Kuehling <Felix.Kuehling@amd.com>
Cc: Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher@amd.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Felipe Balbi <balbi@kernel.org>
Cc: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
Cc: Zhenyu Wang <zhenyuw@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Zhi Wang <zhi.a.wang@intel.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200404094101.672954-1-hch@lst.de
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200416053158.586887-1-hch@lst.de
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200404094101.672954-5-hch@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2020-06-10 19:14:18 -07:00
J. Bruce Fields 52782c92ac kthread: save thread function
It's handy to keep the kthread_fn just as a unique cookie to identify
classes of kthreads.  E.g. if you can verify that a given task is
running your thread_fn, then you may know what sort of type kthread_data
points to.

We'll use this in nfsd to pass some information into the vfs.  Note it
will need kthread_data() exported too.

Original-patch-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com>
2020-05-08 21:23:10 -04:00